Zuni Native American Vase with Lizards By Deldrick Cellicion

Ceck out this beautiful piece by Deldrick Cellicion from Zuni Pueblo. It measures 7.5” H x 6” D Deldrick collaborates with his wife, Lorenda Cellicion, to create polychrome jars, bowls, effigies and wedding vases. His favorite designs are lizards, salamanders, frogs, rosettes, feathers and scroll designs that have captured the eyes of many pueblo pottery enthusiasts and collectors in recent years. The Cellicion family name has become synonymous with the three-dimensional lizard pattern. The pottery from Zuni Pueblo is easy to distinguish from other Pueblos. The artists from Zuni Pueblo create more open pieces such as baskets and bowls and are known for using common animal images like the deer, frog, lizard, tadpole and dragonfly. Zuni Pueblo pottery is made of clay that uses crushed pottery shards or rock to temper it, which gives unfinished pottery a white color, almost like that of ceramic clays. However, most Zuni pottery is coated with a white or colored (usually red) slip and painted with black and red paints. Deldrick's work is included in "Southwestern PotteryL: Anasazi to Zuni" by Hayes and Blom; and in Dr. Gregory Schaaf's "Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2000 Artist Biographies". Gutxiago ikusi Long legged lizards lay across the surface of this pottery by Deldrick Cellicion. Painted in black with delicate white dots and raised of the surface, the lizards seem to come alive. Ornamental designs in black are highlighted with orange and white, while the pot's color trans